Manufacturing test of fibre channel communications cards and optical subassemblies

Author

DeFoster, Steven ; Karst, Dennis ; Peterson, Matthew ; Sendelbach, Paul ; Kottschade, Kirk

Author_Institution

AS/400 Div., IBM Corp., Rochester, MN, USA

fYear

1996

fDate

20-25 Oct 1996

Firstpage

127

Lastpage

134

Abstract

Fiber optic communications is an established technology in the telecommunications industry. In the computer industry it is an emerging technology due to its high bandwidth and its ability to communicate at high speeds over distances that far exceed what is possible using wire cable. In the last six years, fiber optic technology for Fibre Channel (FC) applications has advanced from 266 Mb/sec to 1063 Mb/sec. This paper describes the testing of FC cards and the manufacture of low cost plastic optical subassemblies (OSAs). Future trends in fiber optic communications cards are also discussed

Keywords

automatic test equipment; automatic testing; digital communication; electronic equipment manufacture; error statistics; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; plastic packaging; production testing; telecommunication equipment testing; 1063 Mbit/s; BER testing; bit error rate; eye mask testing; fibre channel communications cards; low cost plastic optical subassemblies; manufacturing test; optical subassemblies testing; Bandwidth; Communication cables; Communication industry; Computer industry; Manufacturing industries; Optical fiber cables; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber testing; Optical fibers; Wire;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Test Conference, 1996. Proceedings., International

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

ISSN

1089-3539

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3541-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TEST.1996.556954

Filename

556954